2007-08 Newsletter

Greetings from the Chair

The Department is delighted to welcome our newest faculty member, Ravi Gupta, Assistant Professor of Hinduism. Prior to this, he taught at Centre College and the University of Florida.

Corinna Hann, "'Get back to where you once belonged': The Beatles, Post-Colonialism and Religion" (High Honors)

Erin Epperson ’04: Erin completed an MA at the University of Chicago Divinity School in December ’07. She entered her first year of Ph.D. studies in Fall ’08 at the University of Chicago through the South Asian Languages and Civilizations department for the study of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist texts.

Thanks to the generous donations from our friends and alumni*, the department is able to sponsor lecture series and host events for our concentrators. Here are highlights from our 2007/08 schedule:

Thanks to a generous grant from three sources, the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, James and Patrice Comey, and Lockheed Martin Corporation, the department will have a visiting professor of religious ethics for at least five consecutive years.